First-order economizing: Organizational adaptation and the elimination of waste in the U.S. pharmaceutical industry

Journal of Managerial Issues

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 511-527

  Key, Bryan D ^a   Reed, Richard ^a   Sclar, David A ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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